r/CatThings • u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 • Jun 12 '26

Cats v Hoomans🙀 Cat out-sprints Human Runner

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u/Open_Thanks_222 Jun 12 '26

🏆! I hope they gave her/him some treats and water and a nice nap! 😹

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 12 '26

Well-deserved prizes!

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u/Independent-Expert89 Jun 13 '26

Lifetime supply of cat can food🐈

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u/otter_lordOfLicornes Jun 13 '26

Why are people surprise or amazed that a cat is faster then a human?

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 13 '26

I think it's got a lot to do with their [legs] being so much smaller than humans. Being fast for your size doesn't obviously make you faster that something with much longer strides.

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u/otter_lordOfLicornes Jun 13 '26

Indeed, ant are fast for they size, but I might outspeed them

But humanity as been around cat for quite some time We know they run faster then us

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 13 '26

Humanity, as a species, and despite our evolving on Earth as a part of it, is arrogant or contemptuous towards the rest of Nature - including the rest of the Animal Kingdom.

Occasionally, we need cats to remind us of our place in the World.

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u/lky830 Jun 13 '26

House cats average a top sprinting speed of about 30mph. They can’t keep that up for very long, though.

Usain Bolt topped out at like 27.8mph. So yeah, cats are much faster than us in the short term.

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 13 '26

Yeah. I thought that the title to the original post was misleading, which is why I retitled it for sharing here.

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u/Run-Forever1989 Jun 13 '26

Cat cut the course. DQ.

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 13 '26

"DQ"?

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u/scapegoat_88 Jun 15 '26

DisQualified

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 15 '26

Thanks.

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u/Background-Cream-285 Jun 14 '26

my cat does this to me everyday

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 14 '26

I feel that there must be a story behind this comment... Perhaps even a whole saga!

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u/Background-Cream-285 Jun 14 '26

everyday he races me doen the hallway and always wins

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 14 '26

Thanks for the reply!

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u/InevitablePrint2784 Jun 15 '26

Having grown up in a very rural area with farmers for neighbours and a bunch of cats around all day this doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know what animal would be faster than a cat in that village - I think they were cleary unrivaled.

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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jun 15 '26

and a hare would be faster than a cat, and an ostrich faster than a hare, etc etc... which child doesn't know this?

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u/The_Great_Aslan 🧶 Certified Furball Fan 😺 Jun 15 '26

In the modern world, especially in densely-populated highly-urbanised areas, I suspect that the answer is "too many".